My guests on the first of two “Theatre Thursday” segments on 09/04/25 on The Drive on 95.5 were Jaime Love and Libby Oberlin for a discussion about the Sonoma Arts Live production of An Night with Janis Joplin. The show runs on the Rotary Stage at the Sonoma Community Center in Sonoma through September 21.…
by Cari Lynn Pace * A Chorus Line opens with a backstage look at dozens of dancers trying out for a part in a new show. The live music is energizing and brassy; the director of the audition is pushy and demanding. After dance eliminations, only seventeen remain onstage. They’re exhausted and nervous as they…
My guests on the first of two “Theatre Thursday” segments on 08/28/25 on The Drive on 95.5 were director Lorenzo Alviso and choreographer Hannah Woolfenden from the 6th Street Playhouse production of A Chorus Line. The show runs in the G.K. Hardt Theatre at 6th Street Playhouse in Santa Rosa through September 28. Click below…
by Harry Duke * It’s been fourteen years since the Transcendence Theatre Company landed and took root in the Sonoma Valley with their Broadway-caliber musical revues. They added the occasional fully-produced Broadway show to their repertoire in 2018 with A Chorus Line and in 2023 they showed The Full Monty in Glen Ellen. After a…
By Cari Lynn Pace * When I was 20, I listened to Carole King’s album Tapestry so often it’s a wonder the phonograph needle didn’t cut through to the other side. I sang along with the gusto of youth and the emotion of young love. I was nurtured by all the heartfelt lyrics to “It’s…
by Harry Duke * Fans of the movie Dirty Rotten Scoundrels will be pleased to hear that the Broadway musical adaptation sticks pretty close to the Steve Martin/Michael Caine comedy. Sonoma Arts Live has a production directed by Carl Jordan running on the Rotary Stage at the Sonoma Community Center through July 27. Suave and…
My guest on the July 17 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 was Daniel Savio, composer/lyricist/musician and Musical Director for the San Francisco Mime Troupe’s latest production, Disruption. The show is playing at various venues throughout Northern California, including at La Plaza Park in Cotati on July 27. Click below to hear the…
by Harry Duke * Which of the following does not belong: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita, Phantom of the Opera, Sunset Boulevard, School of Rock. It’s a trick question because they are all Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals. Even School of Rock? Yep. Webber bought the stage rights to the 2003…
My guests on the 06/26/25 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Declan Hackett and Sylvia Whitbrook from the Raven Players production of School of Rock. The musical runs at the Raven Performing Arts Theater in Healdsburg through July 13. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for more information on the show.
Having never subjected myself to watching an episode of any of the hundred-or-so different entries in the “Real Housewives” franchise, I can’t speak as to the source material from which Barry Martin and Rob Broadhurst have derived their musical parody of the genre. I know enough based on the occasional clips that flow through my…
North Bay Stage and Screen 